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The Alchemy of Shadow Work
Devise a plan for embracing and integrating your shadow self, acknowledging and working with aspects of your personality that are often hidden or suppressed, to achieve a more holistic self-understanding."
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On the one hand, there needs to be openness to the valid input coming from World 48, and to the processing of psychological and developmental issues that appropriately belong to that realm. The imaginal is no place for spiritual bypassing. On the other hand, one must not forget the teaching already laid out, that you can’t play in two worlds at onc
... See moreCynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
Many self-help and popular magic books (for example, Law of Attraction stuff) focus heavily on the coagula phase of the solve et coagula formula. Visualizing, praying, affirming, spell-casting, making vision board collages, creating sigils, charging crystals, doing loving-kindness meditation . . . all of these are well-known, time-tested, and effec
... See moreCarolyn Elliott • Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't)
alchemy has placed the death experience at the heart of the alchemical process. Without entering into the nigredo and undergoing the mortificatio experience, no transformation is possible.
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
Darkness drives us inward where we are confronted with disowned aspects of our psychological selves, our own shadow.
Rubin Naiman • Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening
